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Star Wars / Indiana Jones / Etc.


The kids today need their own adventure series. One that incorporates "diversity" without being fucking preachy about it. New characters. New adventure. Stop recycling old shit and pissing off the young and the old at the same time!

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Will all of the streaming services making their own content now, there has to be stuff like this out there. The "no preachy" part may be a little tough.

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Well, they have Marvel.

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Those characters are a half-century old or more.

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Still popular and lucrative though.

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The following TV shows have been produced over the past four years and have been dismal failures. Partly because they put preaching Wokery way above telling the story and partly because the people making them are talentless hacks.

His Dark Materials
Foundation
The Wheel of Time
Lord of the Rings - The Rings of Power

Hopefully they won't make a mess of the upcoming TV series reboot of Harry Potter but the track record isn't looking good.



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100% agreed. A new franchise/original ideas would be nice.

It's not because 'wokeness' is a problem. It can be any new agenda/narrative, whatever political leaning it takes, but it feels wrong to apply the values of the modern era, whatever those values may be, to a franchise that was conceived several decades ago with a different mindset. I'm not particularly a fan of cons/right-wingers trying to force *their* values on something that is intrinsically progressive/left-wing, any more than I am a fan of woke idealogues trying to force those values on older art/IPs.

By all means, *readapt* media, but the problem is when people try to force their values onto *canon*. It can only end up pissing people off (and the sad thing is, that appears to be partly the point, in order to drum up controversy and a perverse interest). It is any wonder that the more successful Star Wars spin-offs of recent years (i.e. Rogue One, The Mandalorian) have tended to focus on *new* characters, rather than try to rewrite old ones?

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The best *fresh* shows, like Succession, Yellowjackets, The White Lotus, have all been aimed at grown-ups. No-one seems to be doing original stuff for younger audiences/within genre film/TV. Jordan Peele is giving a shot, to give him credit, but his ideas, although excellent, don't really lend themselves to franchises.

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Well, they have Marvel.

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Star Wars too👍
They are taking in huge box office and merch licensing with no end in sight.

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